Deadline—EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Moss and Michael Stuhlbarg have been set in the feature film Shirley about the famed horror author Shirley Jackson. The film will be the next from Madeline’s Madeline director Josephine Decker adapted by I Love Dick‘s Sarah Gubbins from Susan Scarf Merrell’s book of the same name. The film is scheduled to go before the cameras this summer.
Merrell’s 2014 novel tells the story of a young couple that moves in with Jackson and her Bennington College…

Elisabeth Moss to Play Horror Author Shirley Jackson in Upcoming Thriller. Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss will be heading back to the mid-20th century. According to Deadline, Moss is set to play horror and mystery author Shirley Jackson (writer of “The Lottery”) in Shirley. The movie is based on Susan Scarf Merrell’s novel of the same name. The book is a psycho-thriller
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From “The Handmaid’s Tale” to “The Seagull” to “The Lottery” — Elisabeth Moss is on a roll with powerful fiction being brought to screens. But there’s a twist — soon we’ll see her playing writer Shirley Jackson. Deadline reports that Moss, the Emmy Award-winning star of the Hulu series "The Handmaid'sTale,"...